Cornelia Parker: The Distance: A kiss With Added String / by Mark Edwards

Cornelia Parker re-purposing such an iconic historical art work. She said that like what Duchamp did in the exhibition “First Papers of Surrealism” (1942) where he used a mile of string to criss-cross the gallery space obstructing with the string art works on view. I look at what Parker has created and view it as two people being transported into another world. The intervention by hiding their bodies with the string is like a form of escapism, they no longer have to be on display to the prying public, they have been freed to take their own destiny to look down on us from far above in the clouds.